Why is there no Xfce desktop environment available for installation on AlmaLinux 10.1? Is it because only Wayland is supported from AlmaLinux 10 onwards, and Xfce is not yet ready for Wayland?
I suggest to use the Fedora distribution instead. RHEL derivates like AlmaLinux are minimal compositions to run enterprise workloads only. In the future this will become even more acute … otherwise you’ll have a hard time. Time that you actually need for your own work.
OK, thank you for your advice. I want a system that doesn’t update frequently. Is AlmaLinux only suitable for servers? Can it be used as a desktop system?
AlmaLinux can be used as desktop system. I do use it for its “stable” – as in no frequent changes – nature.
AlmaLinux has what RHEL has and RHEL offers only GNOME.
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), is a third-party project, who builds packages for EL (i.e. suitable for RHEL, AlmaLinux, etc). EPEL has thus some DE for some major versions of EL.
As you did note, if upstream software does require what platform does not have (e.g. X11), then it is hard to build such package for that target. You have to ask from Xfce developers whether Xfce is such software.
IIRC, someone did use (Fedora?) copr to build both MATE packages and necessary Xorg packages for EL 10. Therefore, it should be technically possible to get X11-only DE for EL 10, but EPEL will not make such build.
Thank you very much.
This is indeed primarily driven by the fact that XFCE doesn’t have full Wayland support yet.